After 2 years of operation, An Thai hi-tech agriculture area has thus far reached initial successes. The company has developed 120ha of growing vegetables, orchards, ornamental trees and so on. In these hi-tech projects, many models have brought preponderant income sources compared with other plants such as rubber, sugarcane and so on.

Binh Duong province’s agricultural industry has had a gigantic development thanks to a strong spreading of the provincial party committee’s Program 26. Therefore, local farmers have enjoyed opportunities of making wealth from their land lots and gardens.

Entrepreneurial business startups and new venture capital in the reviewed period witnessed exponential growth, according to the statistical agency.

In Q1 2013, Phu Giao district’s Steering Board for Poverty Reduction and Employment Program disbursed more than VND5bln from many different sources for 198 poor households to develop homebased business.

 Attorneys representing the Vietnamese shrimp industry are proceeding to file a petition with the US International Trade Commission (ITC) objecting to the imposition of anti-dumping duties by the US Government.

Reforming the approach to managing official development assistance (ODA) infrastructure projects with the aim of speeding up disbursement of funds was the subject of a conference held in Hanoi on March 29.

Part 2: Modern urban infrastructure

Oxfam International in Vietnam on March 28 launched a new project analysing the country’s poverty reduction policies.

The Management Board of Vietnam-Singapore Industrial Parks (VSIPs) said that province-based VSIPs in Q1 2014 absorbed nearly US$441mln, up 388% compared to 2013. Particularly, there were 7 new FDI projects with a total registered capital of US$45.6mln and 10 extra-ones with over US$395mln.  

Part 1: Industrialization process promoted

Late March 26, the People’s Committee of TDM city forwarded a conference to approve the local report on socio-economic performance, national defence and security in Q1 and implement tasks in Q2 2014.

Ben Cat industry’s rapid development has impacted strongly on urban, trade and service fields. Ben Cat urban image is now full of vitality while its growth pace of trade and service leads in the province with an increase of 50%-60% per year.

Sources from the province’s Departments of Finance, Planning-Investment, Industry-Trade, Tax…at a meeting held by provincial People’s Committee on March 25 to approve the local draft report on socio-economic performance, national defence-security in Q1 2014 and orientations, tasks in Q2 2014 showed that the local socio-economic performance in Q1 2014 reached positive changes.

About 44 out of the 100 State-owned enterprises that have been equitised nationwide in the past three years are under the ministry's control. What are the factors that led to this success?

Implementing the instruction of developing industry in the provincial northern area, from an agricultural district, Ben Cat has become the town with an overall development of industry and trade-service. With the steady foundation, Ben Cat will develop further in the process of industrialization and modernization.